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- Kagero Nikki
Omoiyaru kokoro no sora ni narinureba kesa wa shiguru to miyuru naru ramu
Because my heart, in thinking of you, has become all sky, this morning must appear to you as though cold rain were falling.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Kashiwagi no mori no shitakusa kuregoto ni nao tanome to ya moru o miru miru
Am I, the undergrowth beneath the oak grove, told to go on hoping at every nightfall, while I watch the rain come leaking through?
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Nagekitsutsu kaesu koromo no tsuyukeki ni itodo sora sae shigure sou ramu
Your robe, turned inside out amid your sighing, is already damp; and now the sky must be adding its cold rain to it as well.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Omoi araba hinamashi mono o ikadekawa kaesu koromo no tare mo nururamu
If there were any fire of longing, the robe would have dried by now. How is it, then, that the robe turned inside out is wet for both of us?
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Kimi o nomi tanomu tabi naru kokoro ni wa yukusue tōku omōyuru kana
Setting out with no one but you to rely on, my heart finds the road ahead — and her future — stretching far away.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Tomoyasu
Ware o nomi tanomu to ieba yukusue no matsu no chiyo o mo kimi koso wa mime
Since you say you rely on me alone, it is you who will live to see the thousand years of the pine that waits in the days to come.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Kōruramu yokawa no mizu ni furu yuki mo waga goto kiete mono wa omowaji
The snow falling on the waters of Yokawa, frozen by now, cannot melt away in longing as I do.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Shirarene ba mi o uguisu no furiidetsutsu nakite koso yuke no ni mo yama ni mo
Since you will not understand, I make myself a warbler, lift my voice, and go off crying — over the fields and over the mountains.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Uguisu no ada nite yukamu yamabe ni mo naku koe kikaba tazunu bakari zo
Even to the hills where the warbler idly wanders, if I hear that crying voice, I shall simply come and look for you.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Utagawashi hoka ni wataseru fumi mireba koko ya todae ni naramu to suramu
How full of doubt I am. Seeing this letter meant to cross to another, I wonder whether it is here that the bridge will break.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Nagekitsutsu hitori nuru yo no akuru ma wa ikani hisashiki mono to ka wa shiru
Do you know how long the night is, until it opens into dawn, for one who lies alone and sighing? No — I think you do not.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Geni ya geni fuyu no yo naranu maki no to mo osoku akuru wa wabishikarikeri
Quite so, quite so. It is not the long night of winter, and yet a door of good timber slow to open is a wretched thing.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Matsu hodo no kinō suginishi hana no e wa kyō oru koto zo kai nakarikeru
The flowering branch whose day — the yesterday I spent waiting — is already gone: there is no use in breaking it off today.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Michitose o mitsubeki mi ni wa toshigoto ni suku ni mo aranu hana to shirasemu
To one destined to see three thousand years, let me make it known that this is not a flower which passes away each year.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Hana ni yori suku chō koto no yuyushiki ni yoso nagara nite kurashiteshi nari
Because it seemed ill-omened to speak that word about the flowers, I passed the day at a distance instead.
Nado kakaru nageki wa shigesa masaritsutsu hito nomi kakaru yado to naruramu
Why should these sighs grow thicker and thicker, like wood cast down, until this becomes a house that people only leave?
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna